PLEASE ABIDE BY ALL COPYRIGHT LAWS WHEN USING IMAGES
FOR TEACHER AND STUDENT PROJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS!!!
Educate yourself on Fair Use/Copyright Law Using the images, videos, audios for educational purposes does NOT make it legal!!!!! www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
http://www.vclass.cciu.org Fair Use in Educational Technology. This webinar was a lively discussion surrounding the challenges educators face when dealing with Fair Use
EVEN IF IT IS FREE TO USE............IT NEEDS TO BE CITED............GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!
FREE CLIP ART http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/index.htm Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission.
http://www.wpclipart.com/ A site to copy images from---GUILT AND LEGAL FREE!! "Above all else these images, illustrations and photos are Public Domain. Use them for private use, for commercial use -- without any restrictions whatsoever. Attribution is not required. Links are not required (although appreciated.) They are truly free. It is my hope that students and others will use the images to make their ideas clearer ; but I also hope that in some cases folks will build upon the images or have an idea sparked by them which will lead them to create new, different and exciting things." (COPIED DIRECTLY FROM THE WEBSITE)
POWER LIBRARY- We may use the images from Power Library for educational presentations and projects. However, we may not post the images over the internet (wikispaces, moodle, podcasting, vodcasting).
http://apimages.ap.org/default.aspx ACCESS ALL AP IMAGES THROUGH POWER LIBRARY (if images are not used through Power Library, they are copyrighted and AP generally requests $15.00 for single use of the photo. More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily.
www.wdl.org The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life EXCELLENT SITE!!!! I recommend having students start here! The site gives the photographer's name, date taken, and location. EASY FOR STUDENTS TO CITE LEGALLY!!!!!
OPEN SOURCE MUSIC:
http://www.musopen.com/ "Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put
simply, our mission is to set music free." This site also includes embed codes for their music pieces.
PLEASE ABIDE BY ALL COPYRIGHT LAWS WHEN USING IMAGES
FOR TEACHER AND STUDENT PROJECTS AND PRESENTATIONS!!!
Educate yourself on Fair Use/Copyright Law
Using the images, videos, audios for educational purposes does NOT make it legal!!!!!
www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
http://www.vclass.cciu.org Fair Use in Educational Technology. This webinar was a lively discussion surrounding the challenges educators face when dealing with Fair Use
EVEN IF IT IS FREE TO USE............IT NEEDS TO BE CITED............GIVE CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE!
FREE CLIP ART
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/index.htm Every item comes with a choice of image size and format as well as complete source information for proper citations in school projects. No advertisement-filled pages with pop-up windows or inappropriate links here. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 50 items in a single, non-commercial project without further permission.
http://www.wpclipart.com/ A site to copy images from---GUILT AND LEGAL FREE!! "Above all else these images, illustrations and photos are Public Domain. Use them for private use, for commercial use -- without any restrictions whatsoever. Attribution is not required. Links are not required (although appreciated.) They are truly free. It is my hope that students and others will use the images to make their ideas clearer ; but I also hope that in some cases folks will build upon the images or have an idea sparked by them which will lead them to create new, different and exciting things." (COPIED DIRECTLY FROM THE WEBSITE)
COLOR BLOCKS FOR PHOTOSTORY
http://hs.nazarethasd.k12.pa.us/Solid%20Color%20Blocks/area.htm Blank pages you can use for Photo Story
Websites for free images
POWER LIBRARY- We may use the images from Power Library for educational presentations and projects. However, we may not post the images over the internet (wikispaces, moodle, podcasting, vodcasting).
http://apimages.ap.org/default.aspx ACCESS ALL AP IMAGES THROUGH POWER LIBRARY (if images are not used through Power Library, they are copyrighted and AP generally requests $15.00 for single use of the photo. More than 500,000 current and historical photographs and graphics can be searched by date, place and subject. More than 800 photographs are added to the archive daily.
www.wdl.org The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant cultural materials. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research.
www.digitalhistory.uh.edu AWESOME RESOURCE!!!! Thanks Beverly for the resource!
http://europeana.eu/portal/ Digital images of Europe's treasures
http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/freemedia Excellent site for music and images
www.pics4learning.com Copyright free images. Remember to cite!
http://www.nypl.org/ New York Public Library
http://www.loc.gov/index.html Library of Congress
http://www.archives.gov/ National Archives
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Library of Congress/American Memory Project
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html Library of Congress Print and Reading Room. NOT ALL IMAGES ARE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/types/images/ University of Washington Library
http://www.bu.edu/library/instruction/findimages/index.html Boston University Library
http://digitalmediaresources.wikispaces.com/ Website created by teachers from Troy HS. Gives audio, video, and picture resources that are ethics and royalty free
http://images.google.com/hosted/life EXCELLENT SITE!!!! I recommend having students start here! The site gives the photographer's name, date taken, and location. EASY FOR STUDENTS TO CITE LEGALLY!!!!!
OPEN SOURCE MUSIC:
http://www.musopen.com/ "Musopen is an online music library of copyright free (public domain) music. We want to give the world access to music without the legal hassles so common today. There is a great deal of music that has expired copyrights, but almost no recordings of this music is in the public domain. We aim to record or obtain recordings that have no copyrights so that our visitors may listen, re-use, or in any way enjoy music. Put
simply, our mission is to set music free." This site also includes embed codes for their music pieces.
http://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/Digital_Audio Resources for some free music
http://www.findsounds.com
http://www.soundsnap.com will let you download 5 a month
http://digitalcommons.psu.edu/freemedia Excellent site for music and digital images
http://freeplaymusic.com/
http://cff4bahs.wikispaces.com/Free+Music+Creative+Commons Free Music- Creative Commons
http://www.diigo.com/tag/music%20creativecommons?tab=151 Tags for shareable music
http://themes.mididb.com/anthems/ Midi Files of National Anthems
http://www.last.fm/ world radio mp3 files
http://www.e-greenstar.com/Music-Sample/
http://www.bestmp3links.com/world-traditional.php
http://www.ancient-future.com/mp3free.html
http://www.karadar.it/Mp3composer/Default.htm this is a classical music search
site...they were having issues but claim to have fixed them.
http://www.worldmusicworld.com/free-mp3-folk-world.php
http://hypem.com/ this is kind of like an automatic world music blog aggregator